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The allosteric regulation and covalent regulation of enzyme activity.
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Enzymes are composed of proteins which are responsible for
The enzymatic activities can be categorized into two types, covalent regulation and allosteric regulation. Allosteric regulation broadly means that the regulatory molecules bind to a site other than the active site of the enzyme, whereas in covalent regulation it attaches to the active site of the enzyme.
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